Hello everyhody, the Electric Dragon Rider here! And I'm back with Chapter 4. And I know I've been copying the anime so far, but in this chapter I'm planning to follow it, as well as put my own spin on it. So I hope you enjoy. Welp, let's get on with the story!
'Thoughts/Narration"
Disclaimer - I don't own Shingeki no Kyojin (A.O.T). A.O.T belongs to Hajime Isayama. Now let's begin!
"Shit."
The steam billowed out of the Colossal Titan's body, blowing the cadets off the wall with a forceful wave of hot air. Acting quickly Dean and many of the other cadets shot the hooks of their ODM gear into he wall to stop themselves from becoming a bloody splat on the ground. Dean looked down and watched as one of his fellow cadets fall.
"Cal!" Vivi called, before disconnecting her hooks, and running down the wall after their fellow cadet. Dean watched in horror as she shot her hook at his calf, hoping to stop his fall but only to miss. Many of the cadets turned away as they heard the faint crunch of bones, and the splatter of blood. Dean stared in horror and anger at the bloody stain on the ground that was once a fellow cadet.
Dean growls and disconnects his hook and free falls a bit before shooting back up the wall, "Come on! This is our chance to kill this bastard. We can't lose it!" He spins and lands on the wall in a crouch, "It's been a while." He stares angerly at the Titan while it stares back, it swipes at the cadet with its massive arm, Dean shoots his hook at its body and zips away from the arm as it destroyed the cannons.
He zips his way up the body, until he shoots under the arm and hooks onto its shoulder. Swinging upwards until he was above the titans nape, he shoots down, "FOR HUMANITY!" He spins and slices, but before his blades connect the titan billows steam from its back forcing Dean backwards but preventing him from flying away as his hook was still attached.
"D-damn," he mutters, "so hot." Be pushes the trigger and backs out of the steam, before shooting back in with even more determination. He slices his blades, but only for them to cut through the lingering steam, no sign of the titan other than the footprints and the whole in the wall. He hooks onto the wall and makes his way back up.
"Did you kill the damn thing?" Chas asks after seeing his friend.
Dean looks over the wall, "Yeah cause there's totally a giant red Titan body lying dead on the ground," he replies with sarcastic irritation.
"At attention recruits," a Garrison soldier calls out as the cadets salute to their superiors, "if you've had any contact with the Colossal Titan I need you to report back to hq immediately."
"Sir!" They call out as the Garrison soldiers run off.
Soliders are running around with gas canisters, blades, or trying to strap on their gear. Dean runs through the crowd searching for Zep, he spots him squatting next to the refill tanks.
"Zaria clam down," Zep says sternly to the petite black haired girl next to him who is shakily trying to connect her canisters to the tanks to fill them.
"Im sorry," Zaria says shakily, "I, just, the Titans are in, and we're all going to die! And I dont want to die yet!"
She yelps when a hand finds its way onto her shoulder, she looks over and sees Dean. "Zaria," he says calmly, "we will survive. I will put my life down before I let anything happen to any of you. Now listen to me," she calms down a bit and stares at him, "we survived that attack 5 years ago, we can do it again. Just like our parents did. Now if something happens, you come find your brother and or me. Do you understand?"
She takes a deep breath and nods. "Good," Dean stands up, "Get filled up, im going to find the others." He takes off leaving the two siblings alone.
"Make sure to keep him safe bro," Zaria says a small smile on her face,
"I will," he smiles and fills up his own then takes off to get ready.
"Just one more day," Jack says irritatbly, "and I would've been out of here."
He walks in a random direction while glaring at the ground, until he bumps into someone. He looks up and sees Dean, he scoffs and pushes past, but is stopped when Dean grabs his arm and jerks him around.
"Listen here Jack." He says staring the boy in his eyes, "Your gonna stop acting like a little bitch, and pull yourself together. Your going to survive, and you could go off to live in the interior, but until then your going to fight and your going to pull through."
Jack jerks his arm frees and huffs before walking off. He spots Miles squatting by a pillar looking scared, "Get off your ass Miles and let's go."
While Dean runs around he realizes it's time for the briefing and squad assigning. He heads towards the crowd until an arm grabs his. "Dean."
"Ash," Dean turns and looks at the red head.
"Dean, please," she pauses and looks at her boyfriend with tears, "just, don't die. Please."
He smiles slightly, "I can't make any promises, but I'll do my best." He gives her a quick hug and kiss before running off to find his squad.
She was going to follow him before a soldier jogs over to her, "Yuuki," she looks at the soldier, "You've been assigned to the rear guard, come with me."
She doesn't argue and nods, as she jogs after him she has one final thought as she spots Dean, 'Please stay safe, I don't know what I'd do if you died.'
Dean's P.O.V
"So you ready?" I look over at my best friend.
"Heh, ready as I'll ever be," I respond.
"You better make it out of this alive," I chuckle at Zep's words.
"I can't die here," I say determinedly, "I have so much to do after this. I need to kill them all and see the outside world, and I can't leave you guys hanging."
"What about us?" I turn around and see two of my newer friends, Tony and Mandy.
"Can't forget you guys either," Zep responds, "you've become family."
"Awww," Mandy says as she walks over and puts an arm around Zep, "how sweet of you."
"Let's make this more exciting," Tony says.
"How?" I ask curiously.
"Let's see who can kill the most Titans," Tony says with a smile.
"I'm in," Mandy says.
"Why not?" Zep laughs.
"Better not fib your numbers then," I laugh.
"Squad 14 head out," a soldier yells at us.
"Let's go!"
The four of us charge forward, yelling out battle cries. We leap off the roof, and zip towards the Titans. I glance to the left and spot a tall blonde lanky Titan lumbering towards us rather quickly, "We got an abnormal incoming from the left."
I notice it crouch down while running, my eyes widen when I realize what's happening, "Crap! It's jumping! Pull up!"
We all push harder hoping to get away, I spot a roof and make a quick landing.
I hear a crash and yell of pain. I turn and see the abnormal looking at us around the corner, and I notice it has something in its mouth. I look closer and see that it has Tony half hanging out of its mouth, I can see the pain in his eyes, and blood on his face.
"D-did I win?" He asks in a daze with pain and terror lacing his voice.
The Titan leans its head back and swallows Tony, before jumping down and walking away. "Yes," tears sting my eyes, "yes, goddamnit Tony. You won, you won all the fucking points."
I look down with grief, before looking at the Titans back and let out an angered yell. "GODDAMNIT! AAAAHHHHHHH!" I charge after the Titan filled with rage, shooting between, and around buildings, "You killed Tony! YOUR GOING TO PAY GODDAMNIT!"
"Dean," I hear Zep yell at me, then hear the sound of zipping wires. I forget about my friends chasing me, and keep my focus on the Titan ahead of me. I notice some movement out of the corner of my eye, and before I know a short Titan jumps from an alley way and snaps at my line, causing it give out and send me crashing into the roof tops. I roll and crash across the roofs until I hit the outlayer of a window sticking from a house and get tossed into the air a bit before sliding to a stop. I groan in pain and look behind me the best I can, and when I do I see Zep land across the street from me yelling my name, but before anything else happens I black out from the pain.
3rd Person P.O.V
"Dean!" Zep calls as he watches his friends crash into the rooftops.
"ZEP!" Zep turns around and sees a Titan lifting Mandy into its mouth while she kicks and fights.
"Mandy!" Zep makes a quick turn around and flies after the Titan, he stares in horror as Mandy's body goes limp, and the Titan swallows. "You bastard!" He slices its neck before turning around and flying towards Dean who is lying on a roof, "Dean! Can you hear me?"
As he yells he can see Dean pass out, "Damn," he mutters and zips towards Dean only for a Titan to grab him.
"Let go of me you bastard," Zep struggles to get out of its grasp, and manages to cut its fingers and jumps onto the roof next to Dean, "Damn it Dean, get up!"
The Titan reaches out and grabs Zep again, this time trapping his arms. "DEAN!"
The Titan drops him into its mouth, causing him to drop his swords and try to stop himself, while screaming in fear.
Dean barely cracks open his eyes, "Z-Zep."
"Hey Dean!" Dean looks over and sees his best friend running over to him.
"Hey Zep," Dean smiles and leans back staring at the clouds, "Where's the others?"
"They're on their way. But I wanted to show you something."
"Hmm?" Dean looks at his friend and sees him smiling happily while holding a hook.
"My dad found another one of the books he had when he was a kid and he let me have it."
"That's pretty cool, but you know you can get thrown in the slammer for that right?"
"Who cares?" He opens the book and points to different pictures, "Look at this, the ocean. It's a huge body of water filled to the brim with salt."
"What?" Dean leans in interested, "no way!"
"Yeah way!"
"If it was filled with salt wouldn't people have dug it dry by now?"
"That's the thing," Zep says, "It never runs out!"
"There's also, mountains of ice, fields of sand, seas of fire," he pauses, "one day I want to go see the ocean."
"Damn," Dean looks back, "That'd be fun."
Dean stands up wobbly, "Zep."
Zep yells in horror as he slips down the titans throat.
He claws at the slippery tongue trying to get a grip and stop himself from being swallowed whole.
As he clawed and clawed a hand grabbed his, he looked up into the bloody face of his best friend, and with a grunt, he gets thrown out of the titans mouth. Zep slams into the shingles of the roof, and he turns around. "DEAN!"
Dean has one foot on the titans bottom teeth and his hands on its top teeth, "Zep," Zep can hear the stain in his voice.
"Dean hurry up and get out of there!"
"I don't think I can make it," he looks up at Dean through his sweaty and slightly bloody brown hair, his blue eyes glowing brightly, contrasting the blood on his face, "so promise me one thing before I go... take care of Ash, and everyone."
"DEAN NO!" Dean pushes back a little as the Titan chomps down, snapping its teeth. "DEAN!" Tears pour from Zeps eyes as he cries about the lost of his best friend. The Titan swallows and lumbers away.
Zep crawls further onto the roof top, and cries until he passes out.
Zep's P.O.V
I sat in a daze not caring about my surroundings, but slowly snapped out of my daze at the sound of a muffled voice. "-ep.
"Zep!"
'Just leave me be,' I think.
"ZEP WAKE UP!"
"H-huh?" I snapped out of my daze and see Zaria crouching in front of me, along with my other friends behind her.
"Zep, what happened?" Zaria questions me, "Where is everyone?"
Chas grabs my shoulders and shakes me, "Zep! Where the hell is everyone? And why are you wet?"
I continue to stare in a daze, then it all comes back to me, in a rapid flash back. The abnormal, Tony's death, Dean chasing the Titan, Dean crashing, Mandy's death, getting eaten, being pulled out by Dean, and Dean getting eaten.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I scream and hold my head, "you can't do anything right! What the hell is wrong with you!" I scream at my self, before breaking down and crying.
"Zep!" I look up at my sister through my teary vision, "What happened?"
"Everyone's dead," someone says plainly, "he's all that's left. The others are down a titans gullet."
"Shut up Jennifer!" Zaria yells at the freckled girl.
"He's the only one here," she says with a bored look, "its common sense. They're dead."
"No!" Vivi yells, "Dean can't be dead!"
I have stared calming down. "Zep tell us what happened."
I tense up, 'Ash. How will I tell her?'
Tears fall from my eyes again, "Tony Wanner, Mandy Carol, and Dean Yeager," my voice falters, "They all died valiantly in battle." I start crying once again, while my closest friends look devastated.
'Dean's dead? That's good and bad,' Jack thinks, 'I'll miss him, but now I have a better chance with Ash! HELL YEAH!'
Many of the cadets there are also sadden at the loss of Dean, because he was a well know, and well liked cadet during their training years.
They all share their own silent grief for a little bit, before Ash disrupts it. "We need to get to the hq and refill, or else we will all follow in their footsteps."
"But it's overrun with titans, there's no way we'd survive," Jack says staring at the building with titans surrounding it.
"No," she stands tall and walks to where every cadet can see her, "we will survive this. And we will get there and get refilled."
She looks at me and grabs my hand, "Don't worry, his memory will live on within us," she looks at the other cadets, "Now, are you going to sit here waiting for death like a bunch of sissies? Or are you going to follow me and fight back against the titans?"
After a short time the cadets just stare, "Fine suit yourselves."
She turns around and zips off towards the hq building, I notice the rest of the group smile at how alike Ash and Dean were and we give chase, "Pussies!" Chas yells as he runs past them
"What are you guys waiting for?" Miles says, "We can't let our comrades fight alone." He turns and charges forward slowly the other cadets follow him. I push harder to catch up with Ashley.
"Don't you run out of gas on me Ash," I says with tear stains on his cheeks, "if you run out and get eaten... I don't know what'd I'd do. I lost one of my best friends, I can't lose the other. And his final words to me were 'take care of Ash, and everyone.', and I plan to honor his final words."
"Don't worry Zep," she smiles slightly, "I won't. Besides if I die, who's going to take care of you guys?"
I chuckle, "All right, let's do this." I look forward and I see a couple 10 meter titans, and anger fills me as I shoot forward. "This is for Dean," I spin and slice the titans nape, "DIE YOU BASTARDS!"
The Titan drops dead, and Ash flies past me slicing the next one, and we land on a roof. She looks behind me and smiles, I turn around and see my friends along with the rest of the cadets following. I raise my sword into the air, "LETS DO THIS!"
3rd Person P.O.V
The cadets were making their way to the hq building, they didn't engage titans unless absolutely necessary, but still some of them didn't make it out alive. They make an emergency landing on the roof tops, titans surrounding them. Jack stares in horror, one of their fellow cadets is on the ground, he squeezes the trigger only for gas to sputter out.
He gets picked up, "TOMMY!" A couple cadets fly over to try and help their friend, only to be grabbed by one themselves.
'W-why can't I do anything,' he looks away as their screaming is cut short and their blood drips to the floor, 'wait. They're distracted. Thank you Tommy, your death won't be in vain.'
Zep also notices, "They're distracted," he starts running, "move! Move! Move!" All the cadets start running and zip towards hq. A small group of titans come up from behind and grab a Cadet, he yells for help, and some of the others including Miles head off to help the Cadet.
In the process miles yells to Zep, "Go on ahead! I'll catch up!"
"Stay safe Miles!" He yells back.
Miles ends up trying to fight off a hoard, but gets forced to retreat into a building.
'Damn it, not only I couldn't save them, but I can't get away either...' he thinks to himself as he tries to hide from the titans, he looks down at his sword, 'maybe I should just give up. I failed them.'
The group of cadets flew through the air, getting closer to the building. When Ash heads off to kill a Titan in the path, she runs out of gass and tumbles to the ground. The Titan swats at her, and rolls to the side and darts into an alley. "Chas let's go help her!" Zep calls out to the teen.
"Keep the group going!" Zep yells to Zaria.
"You got it!" She yells in response.
Zep and Chas split from the group and head off towards where Ash went. "Keep guard," Zep says as he heads into the alley, "we don't want to get spotted."
"LET GO BASTARD!"
"Ash," Zep whispers, and he runs in the direction her voice came from.
They enter a small opening between some buildings and see a 4 meter titan holding Ash in the air trapping her arms. It tries to stuff her in its mouth but she pushes agains its teeth with her feet.
"LET HER GO!" Zep yells as he charges forward and attaches his hook into its nape, he zips forward and slices it nape, the titan crashes to the ground dropping Ash.
Chas runs over and helps her up, "You ok?"
"Yeah," she stands up and brushes off her clothes, "just caught me off guard. Thanks guys."
"Your welcome," Zep says.
"How are we getting back?" Chas asks, "Ash is completely out," he taps his tanks, "and I'm almost there."
"I think I have enough for the two of us," Zep says.
"What?"
"Ash grab onto my back," she looks at him strangely but complies, "Chas, keep us safe."
Chas smiles and nods, "Always," the three take off a Chas slightly in front of Zep who has Ash on his back.
"Zep your crazy!" She yells as she clings onto him for dear life.
"Thank you!"
Up ahead Zep watches as the group of soldiers crash through the windows, "They made it." He sighs in relief.
"Crap," Chas says after slicing a titans nape, "the titans are closing in. "
"Then use the last of your gas," Zep says as he pushes harder on the trigger, "GO!"
With a bust of gas, the three zip faster towards the building weaving in and out of titans hands and maws as the snatched and snapped at the cadets.
A Titan swats and smacks Chas sending him flying through a window rolling into a wall, while Zep and Ash crash through the last remaining window. Zep taps his gas tank as Ash climbs off his back, "Woo," he chuckles, "barely made it."
"You're back," Vivi and Zaria yell and run to hug their brothers.
"So what's going on in here," Zep says, "how come we didn't get our back up and refills?"
A cadet helps a shaking solder up from under a table, "They said the basements crawling with titans, and they got trapped here."
"Well then," Zep walks over to them and crouches, "do you have a map of the place?"
One of them shakily nods and pulls one out from the shelf, she hands it over, "H-here."
Zep thanks her and opens it on the floor, and studies it for a bit. 'How can we do this?'
After a little while he looks up, "Alright we can use this lift and try to lure them to us, while the top ten climb above them and we need to slice them before they get to close. It's risky but if you time it, we can make it."
3rd Person P.O.V
A Titan is lumbering through the streets looking for a lost soldier to prey on, when a brown and red blur zips past it. It freezes before its nape explodes in blood and it drops to the ground.
The figure lands on a roof, and looks around with bright blue eyes through a mop of bloody brown hair, it spots a small hoard of titans looking into some buildings, 'Probably a downed soldier,' then they spot the titans surrounding the HQ building, "That'll be fun to get to," it chuckles bitterly.
They zip off toward the smaller hoard first, 'I'll help them, then head to the bigger hoard.'
A Titan stands up with a soldier in its hands, "Let go of me you bastard!" the soldier yells. He screams as one of his legs kick around being the only thing not being held down.
"Miles," the figure breathes out, he growls a little befor zipping forward and slicing off one of its hands, then the other, causing the Titan to drop Miles onto a roof, the figure twists before shooting back st the Titan slicing its nape, showering him in blood once again.
The rest of the titans are to short to reach on the roof, so the figure lands next to Miles. "Thanks for the help," he says as he sits up.
"Not a problem Miles," the figure says in a familiar voice with a smile.
"Wait, how do you-" he's cut off when he sees the fierce blue eyes and bloody brown hair, "DEAN?!"
"Lets go people," Zep says as he directs the soldier into the elevator lift, "horrific death awaits." He jokes only to be smacked by Zaria. While the soldiers are lowered towards the lumbering titans, the top ten make their way down a set of stairs talking over some plans.
"What of we miss?" Vivi asks while they head to the rafters.
"Just shove your blade up their ass," Zep says sarcastically, "it's their only other weakness."
"I didn't know that!" Chas and Vivi yell. The rest of the group laughs and face palm at the twins stupidity.
"Remember wait for my signal," Zep whispers before climbing onto the rafters.
"Got it," they all respond, while Jack just huffs.
After getting into position, Zep calls out quietly, "There 8 titans, two us will have to kill a second."
"How about you and Ash?" Vivid asks, "You guess are the top three."
"Sound good to me," Ash calls out.
Zep was going to speak until the lift coming down cuts him off, "Wait for it."
The lift stops and the titans take notice, and slowly lumber towards them, "NOW!"
The top ten cadets leap from the rafters and slice into the titans napes, while Zep and Ashley rebound and shoot towards the last two slicing them as well.
"Alright everyone refill your tanks, and stock up on blades," Zep calls out as the soldiers climb down from the lift, "Once were filled we head out and take for the wall."
Soldiers run around grabbing extra blades, filling their tanks and taking care of injuries.
After refilling Zep heads upstairs, and he looks out the window, 'I have to keep everyone alive, even if it costs me my life. I have to, for Dean.'
"So what's the plan Zep?" He turns around and sees everyone staring at him.
"Now that we got plenty of gas and blades," he looks around, "our plan is to head to the wall and await further orders."
"Now," he lifts his blade in the air, "are you ready?"
"Yeah!" They all stick the blades in the air as they yell out.
"Then let's-" Zep is cut off when a hole is blasted into the wall of the building, revealing the faces of two titans.
Zep stumbles back, and everyone runs to the other side screaming, except Jack who is frozen in place, 'Is this how I die?
"Jack!" He looks to the side as a feckles faced boy flies through the window, crashing into Jack and knocking them both away from the Titan's hand reaching for them.
"M-Miles?" Jack asks bewildered.
"Yup," he pulls Jack to his feet, "Now run!"
The two run towards the crowd, when they reach the crowd, they see the Titan reaching for them again.
The faint sound of ODM wires is heard wiring but no one notices, the titans go stiff before dropping from the hole to the ground down below.
"THE HELL?" Jack yells.
The sound of a hook embedding stone is heard and a figure jumps away from the hole before swinging back in and doing a back flip before landing in a crouched position. He has one knee bent on the ground the other bent in front of him, and his hands on the ground while still holding his blades. He looks up through bloody brown hair, he stares at the group of shocked soldiers with bright blue eyes.
"Wassup," he says.
"DEAN?" The group yells.
The Shiganshina group rush forward, with Ash and Zep running the fastest. Ash reaches first and jumps into Dean's arms almost knocking him to the floor, "I-I," her voices cracks, "I thought you were dead."
The rest of the group tackle Dean as well while Ash cries tears of relief and joy.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
Everyone turns to the person who saw that and sees Jack looking pissed.
"Jack," Miles says slowly, "what are you doing?"
"Dean your supposed to be dead," everyone's eyes widen, "your supposed to be being digested in a titans gullet right now! How the fuck are you still alive? With you gone I had a better shot of getting Ash, and now your back and you had to fuck everything up!"
"JACK!" Everyone turns to the pissed off group, Jack gulps, "IM GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!" Ash yells as she tries to run at him, but some of the cadets run forward and hold off the Shiganshina group while they all try to run at Jack, probably with the intent to severely hurt him, all while yelling profanities at him.
Most of the cadets are shocked because they've never seen Ash this pissed, and they've especially never seen Zep look at someone with a murderus look.
Dean stands up and walks towards Jack, "You know Jack... I've dealt with your crap ever since Wall Maria fell. And I'm tired of it. You think you can do what ever you want, and just because Ash doesn't like you back, your an ass to me. Maybe if you weren't suck a dick, someone would have fell for you. And I could have lived with it, but what you just said, really pissed me off." Deans eyes are glowing bright with a fire raging in them
"Stay back Dean," Jack says nervously, as he pulls out his swords.
Dean runs forward and swipes his foot out into Jack's knocking him off balance where he falls to the ground. Dean stands up and sheaths his swords before pulling out Jacks and throwing them at a book shelf where some of them get lodged into the wood. He leans down towards Jack, "I think it's time to make you regret all of your actions Jack."
Dean picks Jack up and drags him before throwing his back first into a wall, he picks up Jack again and throws him over his shoulder. He walks over to the hole in the wall, "D-dean?" Ash asks carefully.
Dean stands at the edge of the hole and stares at the titans trying to reach them, he turns around and Jack starts flailing, and yelling. "P-please don't kill me! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I don't want to die!" Dean makes a motion like he's going to throw Jack backwards, and Jack screams, Dean then lurches forward throwing Jack onto the floor.
"I'm not going to kill you," Dean walks over and stands over him with a deadly look in his eyes, "but, you better clean up your act or I'll do it for you," he leans close to his face, "and your not going to like that."
Dun, dun, daaaaaaaa... sorry, I felt like I had to. Thanks for reading this chapter, I hope you've enjoyed. And next chapter were going to have some visitors. So I hope you stay tuned for chapter 5. And this story isn't getting as much love as I hoped, so if you would please share it with your friends. And I also want to thank a couple of my friend s for proof reading this chapter, but there still may be some mistakes, so please don't complain about that. Now, I gotta go before Captain De-
"DRAGON RIDER!"
Uh-oh, welp gotta go before he finds me and sends me to Levi to clean. Bye!
*Takes off running with Dean in hot pursuit*
"GET BACK HERE!"
IM SORRY DEAN! PLEASE DONT SEND ME TO LEVI TO CLEAN!